Everybody please stand for the next United States and justice for all. In accordance with the open public meetings act, adequate notification of this meeting has been provided by advertising in the record and posting notice of this meeting in Burough Hall and the superintendent's office. I
hereby call to order the public meeting of the Little Ferry Board of Education, Thursday, June 19th, 2025 at 4:01 p.m. Can I have a roll call, please? Mr. Belli, Mrs. Bulli, here. Mr. FRO is here. Mr. Cananan here. Mr. Mey,
Mr. Mr. Warsack here. Mrs. Patel here. Mrs. Bradley here and Hara August. We have a quorum. Be a resolved that the Little Ferry
Board of Education approves the minutes of the regular public meeting held on May 15, 2025. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Mr. Fell is absent. Mr. Mr. Bulli, yes. Mr. Fitro, yes. Mr. Kanan, yes. Absent.
Mr. Lisuzo's absent. Mr. Boris, yes. Mrs. Patel, yes. Mrs. Bradley, yes. Motion passes. We'll now open it up to Mr. Parapato to provide a superintendence report. All right, we're gonna start with our May students of the month.
Our grade seven student of the month is Jesus Deleó Forana. Teacher in grade seven had the following things to say about a Jew. He's always very respectful for all the adults he interacts with as well as his classmates. He has shown great improvement since September. He has
grown into a great class participant who's always willing to help those around him. He's very responsible both in and out of school. Congratulations. Everyone. What? And our grade eight student of the month is Brandon.
Brendon, your teacher in grade 8, have the following things to say about you. He is hardworking. He's extremely dedicated to his studies. He programs and creates his own digital games and he has grown tremendously throughout the
year. Congratulations Just a real quick recap uh before I conclude my report. Uh we did have uh okay for the since our last board meeting, there was one uh HIV that was reported at Memorial School was founded.
Um and then below that is the report for uh the second half of the school year, which was December 30th, 2024 to June today, June 19th, 2025. Uh we had a great graduation ceremony or uh promotion ceremony for our eighth grade students that took
place uh Tuesday evening, Monday, Tuesday, Tuesday evening the 17th. It's been a long week. Um very very pleased with how that went. I thought it was really nice ceremony and uh we are looking forward to getting started for the summer with a lot of projects around
the building. So with that concludes my report. Great. Thank you Mr. Parado. We'll now open it up to Mr. Gomez to provide the board secretary's report. So we close May's books on time. Streak is still alive. So in terms of projects, uh
today we had a meeting with our architect and the contract for the unit ventilators. So they're going to start demoing first week in July and then for delivery with the actual units will be later in July. So we'll be starting that
in the primary wing. Uh, bathroom remodel has been started on that. Liberty Middle School nicely, so they're still doing all the site prep work. Food service, we serve like
slightly less meals this year versus last year, but we had five less days. So, and so our average per day is up uh by 40 meals on the elementary and 40 meals in Washington. So, the average
is up. So, profit here to date $211,368. So, we have broken $200,000. Probably do another 10 20 grand on top of that for June. Such a short month. So, yeah, we broke 200,000. So that contains my report. Thank you,
Mr. Mr. Personnel. We've been on this for transportation. Um, we had to reschedule our meeting. So I do not have great that rescheduling just for the
record was just due to original park speculation being moved to 3:00. Mr. Boris for the Bison report. what to do at this point. Mr. Fros for the Richville Park leazison report. Yeah. So, um yesterday Richville Park had a
board meeting and um pretty pretty important meeting. They um they just uh were taken out of um receiverhip with the state. So going back to January of 2016, Ray, Michelle and I went to
Richfield Park over nine years ago and u one of our board members time had just gotten ill and we just found out that Richfield Park was in deficit by over$ two and a half million dollars and at that time to that meeting we decided that I would be the next liaison there
and to see where Richfield Park has been from being in deficit to not being able at times making payrolls and having all these other constraints, not doing any work to the district for at least five or six or seven years. Mr. Prepar, you were there during that time. You know
what it was like. And to see yesterday being announced that um Mr. Egan, the second um second monitor, is now leaving and effective July 1st, um Rich Park will no longer be in deficit, and we'll
be able to do a lot of different things. They'll be able to manage their monies moving forward. They'll be able to keep up to 2% of their balance on the annual basis. Right now is receiverhip. It's only one and a half percent. They have currently about $6 million over $6
million in reserves right now. Capital reserves. They're making changes to buildings. They're doing um a lot more um you know construction. They're doing roof work. They're doing work in the elementary schools. They're doing a
reorganization uh starting next year for the following year of their schools as a whole. Potentially talking about removing the junior jun the junior high school out of the high school. They're looking at that as well. Um so it's you
know we it's a lot of um a lot of things have happened and this is this was actually a very good meeting and one of the better meetings I've been to um been a part of and to see where they've come from the last nine years it's good it's good for them and good for us too for our students that are going there. So
hopefully they can they can keep u their finances in order and move forward and hopefully that uh better you know even more days better days to come for them and for our kids that are going thanks. Great. Thank you
Mr. Cananan for NJSBA. Great. We'll now open it up to public comment on agenda items. All right. Then we'll take a block vote on F24 to F28, DO79 to DO 104, P63 to P79, FA5,
C10 to C12. Do I have a motion? Second. Okay, Mr. Fernelli is absent. Mrs. Riy, yes. Mr. Fitro. Um, yes. Mr. Cananan, yes. Mr. Boris.
Yes. M. Patel. Yes. Mrs. Bradley. Yes. All motions pass. Right. We'll now open it up to public comment on non-aggenda items. Hi, it's me, Leslie Gotley. Um, I have a comment and then a question. Okay. I
went out of my way last night. I attended the RP meeting after seeing the notice of the end end of the uh the word escapes me the monitor era because I was also there fairly early on. My son went through the high school during that era
and you know that board has worked hard um and really done a good job to turn the school around and I really think they're on a track that people will not say oh Richfield Park and will be proud to send their kids there. It's really I'm really impressed with the work
that's been done and I told them so. And the question I have I think it goes back to the budget hearing. Um I saw something mentioned about looking into acquiring property and I really wanted a clarification on that. Um always
interested in acquiring property. Uh if I could answer the question please if you don't mind if I ask question. Okay. Um, so twofold. One, acquiring property allows you to put more money into your capital reserve because you you could only keep a
certain percentage. John, if I misspe this, please correct me. So for your capital reserve, you can only keep a certain percentage of your funds in capital reserve. So when you mark down that you're want to acquire property, that allocates the number that capital reserve. That's first and foremost.
Secondly, as we continue to expand the central office will need a place to go. Um, right now that place potentially could be the annex which is currently located in the back. Uh, but if the central office were to find a place to
go that would allow for the revenue that was spoken about referendum and then you know supplement it out to a joy per se or another type of program. So, like the way Richfield Park decided to move their central office to another building, correct? They're renting right now. Um,
I believe that's accurate, right? So, we we would like that. Not that renting is off the table, but I would like to acquire property. I always think it's a good acquisition because it then you own it and then it's yours and down the line you do get into money trouble,
you do have other properties that you can, you know, sell at that point if needed. Right. No, I agree. It's good investment. It's a good strategy. I just didn't get a chance to get down here to ask about that. It's really a placeholder. So, the way the budget process works is if it's not in the
budget, you can't do it. So, it's sort of preemptive. Okay. But it doesn't mean you're going to do it. You just No, but but we set ourselves up so the right opportunity comes across, we can do it. If we don't do that part of it and the right opportunity came, we wouldn't be
able to do it. Okay. Got it. All right. Thanks. Not a problem. Yeah. Any other public comments? Do I have a motion to adjourn? Motion. Second. I love that thing.